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Inside the Migrant Legalization Offer Congress Has Heard Before
Trump says legal status for long-settled immigrants is “actually doable.” Will Democrats send him a bill?
On Sunday, President Donald Trump told “60 Minutes” that his mass deportation campaign has gone too far. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump told Ross Douthat.
Now the Trump is talking about a deal again on a legalization program. The people the president would need to make one in Congress are listening — but on Capitol Hill, almost nobody believes him yet.
Trump Floats Legalization
Trump had mentioned an immigration deal on election night, Nov. 3, in an interview with Dasha Burns, on the same evening his party lost control of both chambers of Congress. By Sunday he had a pitch.
“Get the killers out. Get all the … rough ones out. Get the drug dealers out. But let the people that are here, and in some cases here for ten and 15 years, work a deal for them,” Trump said.
When Douthat asked about creating “some kind of legal status,” Trump said yes. He called a deal with Democrats “actually doable.”
The president did not say what a deal would include or who would qualify. He did not say citizenship, green card, DACA or any eligibility date. He said people had already contacted him about possible deals but did not name them.
Trump did point to two incoming Democratic freshmen he thought might be interested, Sens.-elect James Talarico of Texas and Annie Andrews of South Carolina.
Teasing Relief
Trump has floated legalization before.
In January 2018 he put a citizenship deal in writing: a 10- to 12-year path for about 1.8 million young immigrants brought here as children. The president’s price was $25 billion for the border, limits on family sponsorship and the end of the diversity visa lottery. His version failed in the Senate 39-60.
A bipartisan alternative that also paired citizenship with $25 billion in border money died 54-45 after the White House threatened a veto. A year later, in the middle of a shutdown, he offered three years of DACA protection for $5.7 billion in wall money, with no path to citizenship.
On July 10, 2020, he told Telemundo, “We’re going to have a road to citizenship.” Eighteen days later his administration stopped taking new DACA applications and cut renewals from two years to one.
In December 2024 he told “Meet the Press” he wanted Dreamers to stay. “I do,” he said. Two years later, a discharge petition is one signature away from the 218 required to force the Dream and Promise Act onto the House floor for a vote.
“My policy hasn’t changed”
The opening from 60 Minutes lasted just one news cycle. On Monday, Trump closed part of it. “There won’t be amnesty. Somebody suggested, will there be amnesty? No,” Trump said. “My policy hasn’t changed.”
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, a former senator from Oklahoma, filled in some details the president had left out. Mullin said Trump had told him, “Let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point,” meaning Democrats.
Then Mullin brought up DACA. He said a reform could look at whether recipients “can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this,” and added that “that’ll be up to Congress.”
On Capitol Hill...
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